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As he walked along Cook Street in Cork city, a member of the Black and Tans was
attacked by four men and shot dead. Fredrick Sterland had earlier been drinking
with the same party of men in a nearby hotel and was followed by them after he
left the premises.
After the shooting he was
brought to the South Infirmary but died shortly afterwards. Birmingham born Constable Sterland, a twenty-three-year-old
married man with just four months service in Ireland, was a member of the transport section. He
was a draughtsman and a soldier before joining the RIC.
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